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<p><i><font size="+1"><b>June 5, 2021</b></font></i></p>
[don't ignore risk]<br>
FEDERAL RESERVE<br>
<b>Powell says climate change is not a main factor in the Fed’s
policy decisions</b><br>
<blockquote> -- Fed Chairman Jerome Powell said climate change is
not a main consideration for monetary policy.<br>
-- Powell made clear that the institution’s role in the matter is
limited to oversight of banks and the rest of the financial
system.<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.cnbc.com/2021/06/04/powell-says-climate-change-is-not-a-main-factor-in-the-feds-policy-decisions.html">https://www.cnbc.com/2021/06/04/powell-says-climate-change-is-not-a-main-factor-in-the-feds-policy-decisions.html</a>
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[somebody tell the FED]<br>
<b>Climate tipping points could topple like dominoes, warn
scientists</b><br>
Analysis shows significant risk of cascading events even at 2C of
heating, with severe long-term effects
<blockquote>“The study suggests that below 2C of global warming – ie
in the Paris agreement target range – there could still be a
significant risk of triggering cascading climate tipping points,”
said Lenton. “What the new study doesn’t do is unpack the
timescale over which tipping points changes and cascades could
unfold – instead it focuses on the eventual consequences. The
results should be viewed as ‘commitments’ that we may be making
soon to potentially irreversible changes and cascades, leaving as
a grim legacy to future generations.”<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/jun/03/climate-tipping-points-could-topple-like-dominoes-warn-scientists">https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/jun/03/climate-tipping-points-could-topple-like-dominoes-warn-scientists</a><br>
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[too much in the middle]<br>
<b>Biden Faces First Major Climate Protest As President</b><br>
Sunrise Movement, the youth campaigners behind the Green New Deal,
are set to rally at the White House.<br>
President Joe Biden’s honeymoon with climate activists looks set to
end Friday as Green New Deal activists descended on the White House
to demand that the administration abandon plans to water down its
landmark infrastructure proposal. <br>
<br>
On Friday morning, a few dozen Sunrise Movement volunteers and
staffers rallied outside the White House to protest the Biden
administration’s move to prioritize Republican support for his
spending package over funding programs activists say are needed to
transition the United States to a safer climate future. <br>
<br>
“Now that Biden is in power, that promise of co-governance with
progressives and young people has disappeared,” Varshini Prakash,
executive director of Sunrise Movement, said in a statement before
the protest. “He’s spent more of his time meeting with a Republican
Party who to this day contests he is the democratically elected
President.” <br>
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Things grew worse from there. The administration outraged
environmental groups last week when it defended a massive
fossil-fuel drilling project in Alaska’s National Petroleum Reserve.
The so-called Willow Project, led by ConocoPhillips, is slated to
produce 590 million barrels of oil over its 30-year lifespan ― the
kind of development that seems wildly misaligned with Biden’s pledge
to transition the U.S. away from planet-warming fossil fuels.<br>
<br>
Ahead of Friday’s event, Sunrise Movement previewed what seemed to
be a scattershot list of demands. Rather than press the
administration to up the spending on its climate proposals overall,
the group zeroed in on Biden’s plan to establish a Civilian Climate
Corps modeled on a similarly named New Deal-era conservation
program. The White House’s initial pitch included $10 billion for a
job program to revive wetlands, bolster renewables and restore
America’s public lands. Sunrise Movement wants the program to have a
much larger budget. <br>
The nonprofit is also demanding Biden prioritize meeting one-on-one
with its leaders over Republican lawmakers whose counterproposal to
the infrastructure package sought to strip out most of the climate
provisions. <br>
<br>
“It’s time to meet with us, the young organizers that elected him,
instead,” Prakash said in the press release. “This moment demands an
infrastructure package that will stop climate change and create
millions of good jobs in the process, and we won’t stop until he
delivers.”<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/biden-climate-sunrise-movement-protest_n_60b94bcee4b0169ca972db88">https://www.huffpost.com/entry/biden-climate-sunrise-movement-protest_n_60b94bcee4b0169ca972db88</a><br>
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[Online movie trailer]<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://youtu.be/Gb6wQtNjblk">https://youtu.be/Gb6wQtNjblk</a><br>
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[Science gives emotions]<br>
<b>David Attenborough Netflix documentary: Australian scientists
break down in tears over climate crisis</b><br>
Breaking Boundaries: The Science of Our Planet shows the toll the
demise of the Earth’s natural places is having on the people who
study them<br>
One of Australia’s leading coral reef scientists is seen breaking
down in tears at the decline of the Great Barrier Reef during a new
Sir David Attenborough documentary to be released globally on Friday
evening.<br>
<br>
Prof Terry Hughes is recounting three coral bleaching monitoring
missions in 2016, 2017 and 2020 when he says: “It’s a job I hoped I
would never have to do because it’s actually very confronting …”
before tears cut him short.<br>
<br>
The emotional scene comes during the new Netflix documentary,
Breaking Boundaries: The Science of Our Planet, and shows the toll
the demise of the planet’s natural places is having on some of the
people who study them.<br>
<br>
The film visits scientists working on melting ice, the degradation
of the Amazon, and the loss of biodiversity, and looks at a
2019/2020 “summer from hell” for Australia that featured
unprecedented bushfires and the most widespread bleaching of corals
ever recorded on the Great Barrier reef.<br>
<br>
The 70-minute film features another Australian scientist, Dr
Daniella Teixeira, walking through a blackened landscape where she
was working to conserve endangered glossy black cockatoos.<br>
<br>
“There’s no sign of any wildlife at all,” says Teixeira, with
footage of twisted and burnt animals and trees turned to charcoal.
“There’s nothing left.”..<br>
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The documentary, fronted by Attenborough, is centred on the research
of Swedish scientist Prof Johan Rockström, whose work looks at the
concept of tipping points and boundaries in different systems around
the planet, such as the polar regions, the Earth’s biodiversity and
the climate.<br>
<br>
Netflix says the film documents “the most important scientific
discovery of our time – that humanity has pushed Earth beyond the
boundaries that have kept Earth stable for 10,000 years, since the
dawn of civilisation.”<br>
<br>
Hughes has become a high-profile scientific figure in Australia for
his research on the complex impacts of global heating on the world’s
biggest reef system and his monitoring flights to document mass
bleaching.<br>
<br>
“In big thermal extremes like we’ve been seeing during mass
bleaching events in recent decades [corals] can actually die very
very quickly. They cook,” he says in the documentary.<br>
<br>
Hughes told the Guardian that “if anything I think the emotional
response has lessened over time” and that the 2016 bleaching event
in the north of the reef “was the most confronting”.<br>
<br>
“But it’s still deeply saddening,” he said.<br>
<br>
He said Rockström’s research, which he has collaborated on, was
“simple and powerful” and showed how the world was on a “trajectory
that is not sustainable”...<br>
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“You can easily transgress a tipping point and not notice it for a
couple of decades,” he said, adding he thought the amount of CO2 in
the atmosphere had probably reached a tipping point for coral reefs
in the 1980s.<br>
<br>
Hughes, of James Cook University’s Centre of Excellence for Coral
Reef Studies, said the black summer bushfires and coral bleaching
“points to Australia’s vulnerability”.<br>
<br>
In the documentary, Attenborough says: “We are heading for a future
where the Great Barrier Reef is a coral graveyard.”<br>
<br>
He describes Australia’s 2019/20 summer as “a summer from hell,
fuelled by record-breaking temperatures and drought”.<br>
<br>
Texeira, from the University of Queensland, is filmed in February
2020 returning to sites on Kangaroo Island off the South Australian
coast where she was studying endangered glossy black cockatoos.<br>
<br>
She finds one of the nests erected to help the birds on a fallen
tree with an iron plate around the trunk to stop possums climbing up
and attacking the young.<br>
<br>
With the iron buckled from the heat and the nest melted, Texeira
says: “They weren’t enough to save them.”<br>
<br>
She told the Guardian: “There are days when I still get overwhelmed.
At the end of the day, we’re humans and we have emotions.”<br>
<br>
She had been visiting the island for four years and the fires had
come just as she was completing her PhD.<br>
<br>
“I have come out the other side now but it has really made me more
focused on the urgency of the problems and how we as scientists can
make changes now.”<br>
<br>
Breaking Boundaries: The Science of Our Planet is available on
Netflix on 4 June<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/jun/04/david-attenborough-netflix-documentary-australian-scientists-break-down-in-tears-over-climate-crisis">https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/jun/04/david-attenborough-netflix-documentary-australian-scientists-break-down-in-tears-over-climate-crisis</a><br>
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[an app]<br>
<b>Looking to escape wildfire smoke in WA this year? A new tool
could help</b><br>
Smoke forecasting is notoriously hard to do, but a new tool from the
state Department of Ecology may help us anticipate hazardous air
five days in the future.<br>
<br>
by Hannah Weinberger / June 4, 2021<br>
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Forecasters say no long-forecast tool can really change the basic
fact that, for Washingtonians, smoke in the summer is a fact of life
now: Being prepared for it should be the default, not something to
start thinking about a few days out. <br>
<br>
“It's summer in the Northwest — you should really use this
opportunity, when there's no panic, to be prepared,” Swartzendruber
says. He compares smoke preparation to fixing a leaky roof. “When
it's dry, there's no problem to fix,” he says. “But when it's
raining and the roof is leaking, you can't go up on the roof and fix
it because it's raining, so take advantage of when there's not a
problem to make sure you're ready for when there might be.”<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://crosscut.com/environment/2021/06/looking-escape-wildfire-smoke-wa-year-new-tool-could-help">https://crosscut.com/environment/2021/06/looking-escape-wildfire-smoke-wa-year-new-tool-could-help</a><br>
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[bookmark thsi site]<br>
<b>Washington Air Monitoring Some Forecast</b><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://enviwa.ecology.wa.gov/home/text/421#Forecast">https://enviwa.ecology.wa.gov/home/text/421#Forecast</a><br>
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[Book discussion audio]<br>
12 Rules For WHAT<br>
<b>42 - White Skin, Black Fuel w/ Andreas Malm And Lise Benoist</b><br>
<br>
Alex and Sam talk with two members of the Zetkin Collective, Andreas
Malm and Lise Benoist about their new book, White Skin Black Fuel.<br>
<br>
We discuss Rassemblement national's ecological turn in France, how
far right acceptance of the climate crisis is just denial in another
form, the attachement of the far right to blocks of capital and the
political character of national landscapes.<br>
<br>
White Skin, Black Fuel is the new book from the Zetkin Collective.
It delves into the intersection of the far right and the climate
crisis.<br>
<br>
"In the first study of the far right’s role in the climate crisis,
White Skin, Black Fuel presents an eye-opening sweep of a novel
political constellation, revealing its deep historical roots.
Fossil-fuelled technologies were born steeped in racism. No one
loved them more passionately than the classical fascists. Now
right-wing forces have risen to the surface, some professing to have
the solution—closing borders to save the nation as the climate
breaks down.<br>
<br>
Epic and riveting, White Skin, Black Fuel traces a future of
political fronts that can only heat up."<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.versobooks.com/books/3812-white-skin-black-fuel">https://www.versobooks.com/books/3812-white-skin-black-fuel</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://soundcloud.com/12rulesforwhat/ep-42-white-skin-black-fuel-w-andreas-malm-and-lise-benoist">https://soundcloud.com/12rulesforwhat/ep-42-white-skin-black-fuel-w-andreas-malm-and-lise-benoist</a><br>
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[The news archive - looking back]<br>
<font size="+1"><b>On this day in the history of global warming June
5, 2014</b></font><br>
<br>
June 5, 2014: On MSNBC's "The Ed Show," Rep. Raúl Grijalva (D-AZ)
discusses President Obama's efforts to reduce carbon pollution from
existing power plants.<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.msnbc.com/the-ed-show/watch/cleaning-up-americas-carbon-footprint-274479171724#">http://www.msnbc.com/the-ed-show/watch/cleaning-up-americas-carbon-footprint-274479171724#</a><br>
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